You’re Gonna Need a Second Boat

Courtesy of Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard/ photo by Lynn and Susan Murphy

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

In the 1974 movie “Jaws,” Roy Scheider’s character utters that now famous line to Robert Shaw’s character Quint after Scheider came face to face with the enormous shark.

What the makers of “Jaws” discovered during filming is that in order to finish the movie they were going need a replica of Quint’s Orca that they could sink over and over. They made a copy of the Orca, but it did not get an engine. Instead Orca II was outfitted with barrels below the waterline that the film crew could fill to sink the boat and empty to raise it again for a subsequent take.

If there’s a fire extinguisher on your boat — and there should be — there’s a good chance Kidde manufactured it. The fire safety company last week announced the recall of more than 40 million fire extinguishers it says may fail to discharge during a fire. WATCH.